What Gear Do You Crave?

What Gear Do You Crave?

  • Leica M9

    Votes: 182 29.1%

  • Leica Film Body & Lens

    Votes: 130 20.8%

  • Hasselblad Digital body

    Votes: 25 4.0%

  • Hasselblad Film Body & Lens

    Votes: 37 5.9%

  • Nikon D3x or equivalent

    Votes: 12 1.9%

  • Lens for DSLR

    Votes: 16 2.6%

  • Linhof

    Votes: 18 2.9%

  • Rolleiflex

    Votes: 29 4.6%

  • Bessa III

    Votes: 15 2.4%

  • A collectors Item

    Votes: 21 3.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 140 22.4%
  • Total voters
    625
I would love to get myself a good film scanner, super angulon 21 f3.4 and summilux 35 and 50. Is 10 grand enough for all these?? 😀
 
Zuiko 150mm f/2.

Pentax 31mm Limited, and a pristine LX to put it on.

<Zeiss ZM 35mm C Biogon.> <<-- Edit: Got it. 😀

Leica 75mm Summicron ASPH.

Leica 35mm Summilux ASPH FLE.
 
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I crave a few things...some of which are obtainable, some of which are not, and some of which I should just not bother with but probably will anyway.

Leica M9 (or even M8.2)
Hasselblad 500 c/m, Bronica SQ, or Mamiya 6
Fuji 6x9 or 6x7 Rangefinder
Olympus XA
Sony NEX-3 w/ 16mm lens
 
Twenty years ago, I was talking with my sister about photography gear and I said something like, "If I just had 10 grand (dollars), I could buy everything I would ever desire photographically." At the time, the list included an 8x10 camera, a Hassie with a couple of lenses, LF enlarger and some other choice items. Well time has marched on and I eventually got my hands on everything that was on that list (still have some of it). But you know what? That number, that elusive amount of extra cash that would make all my photo-gear desires into reality is still that same $10 grand that it was 20 years ago. Believe me when I say that gear craving is a mug's game . . . unless acquisition of photo gear is what you enjoy. Now if that 21 Biogon would just get here from Popflash . . . .

Ben Marks
 
nd filters

nd filters

charjohncarter said:
Right now I'll be buying a Wein Safe Synch, a new bellows for a Agfa Isolette II, a 200mm lens for my Pentax 6x7. I just bought a AS-6 Canon semi underwater camera (less than $20.00 with S&H). Possibly I'll get some ND filters. I just finished a complete set up for my daughter: a ringflash (Vivitar Marco500), a safe synch, and adapter rings for her Dermatology practice. Plus, I'll stock up on some 35mm slide film and B&W for the Summer, I like to use 35mm on vacations. That's it for the next three months, although I might be tempted by a Vivitar 283s flash.
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I have a few nd filters, not used in a long time. Future need for them is slim to nil. Let me know the ones you are looking for and i will ship them to you. They are 3x3 gel nd filters.
I have always liked your b&w white photos. I am a retired commercial photographer.
Emmett
 
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Phil_F_NM said:
They are all over Craigslist. You may be able to find one for free, even.
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I live right between los angeles and santa barbara, CA. People don't give stuff away very often around here. It's a bummer. My craigslist photo page has a few canon EOS Rebel film bodies for $250 each, an F5 for $500, and a nikon point and shoot 3 years old for $250.
 
Too many to list

Too many to list

Only one choice? You evidently never suffered a severe case of GAS. I've been shooting MF lately and checked out the Bessa III at a dealer, but I can't seem to muster up $2250 for it 🙁

Others would be a Rolleiflex 2.8F, Mamiya 7II or a Hasselblad SWC/M.
 
...a 6x9 folding camera as a companion camera to go in the bag with a rangefinder.
...a higher end rangefinder than a Canonet.
...a better DSLR than a D70s.
...a wide angle lens for my Bronica SQ-A.
...a decent film scanner.
...a f/1 or faster lens for anything I shoot as I never have enough light.
...bulk rolls of 1600 or 3200 film

The list is more or less infinite.
 
I'm pretty much craving a colour developping machine for my dark room...
I'd love to be able to make large colour prints in my dark room (but I don't even know what kind of machinery or gear you'd need for the printing ...)
And a 150mm lens for my Durst Laborator 1200 🙂
 
Lately, I have been craving a Bessa R4a. I am planing to get a 21mm, so it would be a good fit... I would use the 21 and 28 on it. And use the 35/50/90 on the M5. Plus having a body with Aperture Priority would be nice at time.

Of Course an M9 would be nice... by way out range right now.
 
I voted other :- enough 'goodies' to take to a couple of very poor childrens orphanage
charities I work with in Africa and Kashmir and the time to just sit and shoot what happens with the gear I already have.

'Cradle for Life International ' in the mountains of Kashmir, 'Maldon Saints football club' at Mandour and Bansang in Africa and the 'Hope Prison Ministry' in the Childrens wing of Pollsmoor Prison Cape Town ,South Africa.
 
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I've been recently bitten by the Nikon rangefinder bug, so as for now (next 15 minutes, that is):
- A black SP 2005 with the new 35/1.8
- A black S3 2000 with the Millenium 50/1.4
- A black S2
- An M, a chrome SP with titanium shutter, a mint boxed S, an S4 or better yet an S4M
and a horde of Nikkor-S lenses (2.1cm, 2.5cm, 8.5cm, 50/1.1, etc etc etc)
 
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